CDE XTerm Elevated Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

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Info

CDE XTerm Elevated Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3646
Class: Origin Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Dec 06 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 06 2001 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was announced in a Caldera Security Advisory on December 06, 2001.
Vulnerable: Caldera UnixWare 7.1.1
Caldera UnixWare 7.1 .0
Caldera OpenUnix 8.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

CDE XTerm Elevated Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a commercial window management system for X. It is distributed with various commercial UNIX implementations.

CDE does not check the validity of previously saved session. This vulnerability allows a local user to make modifications to the previously saved CDE session, and when the desktop restarts, give the user an xterm with elevated privileges. This could allow a local user to gain elevated privileges, including administrative access.

Exploit / POC

CDE XTerm Elevated Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

CDE XTerm Elevated Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

Solution:
Vendor fixes available:


Caldera UnixWare 7.1 .0

Caldera UnixWare 7.1.1

Caldera OpenUnix 8.0

References

CDE XTerm Elevated Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

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